Slanted in Rwanda: Innocent Nkurunziza / Inema Arts Center

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For our special issue Slanted Rwanda we traveled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in February 2019 and met numerous designers and artists in their studios.

For our researches we met Innocent Nkurunziza in his studio. Innocent is at the forefront of the growing Rwandan fine art movement. The desire to transform lives through art drives his work each day. Innocent co-founded Inema Arts Center with his brother and fellow painter, Emmanuel Nkuranga. His work is exhibited around the world from New York, Wilmington NC, Tucson AR, Portland OR, Boston, Charlottesville, and Washington DC in the U.S., to UK, Scotland, Canada, Germany, Denmark, and The Netherlands.

The exciting works of Innocent Nkurunziza can be found in the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, additionally we conducted a video interview with Innocent about his attitude and work. Take a look at our new issue and the video platform to meet a new side of Rwanda!

Photography: © Daniel Sommer, Slanted Publishers

Supported by descom Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).

Im wahrsten Sinne des Zeichens

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A giant puzzle as a game with meaning, consisting of symbols, icons, and pictograms—hieroglyphics of our time, familiar to us from traffic signs, devices and screens, can be seen from November at the Muse­um für Druck­kunst in Leip­zig. The core of the exhibition is the translation of the biblical story of creation »Im wahrsten Sinne des Zeichens« by Juli Gude­hus. Museum visitors are invited to explore Juli Gudehus’ “Genesis” as an oversized puzzle and actively participate in the development of a possible world language from symbols.

Im wahrsten Sinne des Zeichens—symbols as world language. A playful Experiment by Juli Gudehus.

When?
November 10th, 2019 to March 15th, 2020.

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Exhibition Opening: November 10th at 11:30 a.m.

Where?
Museum für Druckkunst
Nonnenstraße 38
04229 Leipzig

Tickets:
6.– / 3.– / 1.5 €

More information to the event here.

Injurial

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Injurial was designed by Sandrine Nugue during the editorial design of a novel by Boll, published by Tripode, in 2014. This humorous thriller features many mediums, and specifically some pretty aggressive graffiti. Sandrine Nugue chose to design a sharp, elegant typeface to be used for insults.

The result is Injurial, a typeface made to withstand the worst, while saying it with refinement and eloquence. Its proportions are those of monumental Roman capitals, and it possesses a light weight which reveals only a very slight contrast. Categorized as an incise, or glyphic serif, consisting solely of capitals, it is ideal for setting titles.

Injurial

Foundry: 205TF
Designer: Sandrine Nugue
Release: June 2019
Format: Desktop, Web, App
Weight: Regular
Price: From 75.– €

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Akademische Mitteilungen

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Homeland is an ambivalent word. For some it is a synonym for security, identity, self-evidence and is able to give them orientation. The others see in it a kind of code name for nationalistic and racist attitudes, while in their love for their homeland they discover hatred for the foreign. In the AM 24 questions are being asked. To whom does the homeland belong? How does it feel, smell and taste? Or is it in the end non-existent and only a construct in our heads? What is home for you?

About Akademische Mitteilungen:
The magazine “Akademische Mitteilungen,” short “AM,” is a publication of the communication design course of the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, which is located in the area of independent cultural and social magazines. The magazine appears in a limited edition of 1000 copies and is distributed nationwide and internationally in selected bookstores and online shops. The 24th edition of Akademische Mitteilungen deals with the topic of home. The content was researched by Aischa Matthes & Sibel Balac and the magazine was realized with the help of sponsors.

Akademische Mitteilungen #24 – Heimat

Art Direction: Aischa Matthes, Sibel Balac
Editor: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
Photographer: Aischa Matthes, Andrea Diefenbach, Andrew Buurman, Peter Bialobrzeski, Serife Zor, Sibel Balac
Illustrator: Aischa Matthes, Alina Wenzler, Kati Szilagyi, Maggie Truong, Niklaus Troxler, Sibel Balac, Sua Balac, William A. Hall, Stephanie Wunderlich
Release: June 2019
Edition: 1000 copies
Format: 24 × 32 cm
Volume: 128 pages
Cover: Material Bronze embossed, foil laminated matt
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-942144-61-2
Price: 10.– €

 

Yearbook of Type 2019/20

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At a time when it has never been easier to design, publish, and distribute typefaces, standing out as a designer is now evermore challenging. For typeface users in particular, staying up to date with the latest font trends and innovations and having to choose the right font for a project, has hardly been more difficult. The Yearbook of Type 2019/20 is a practical guide that helps users navigate the diverse, ocean-like, typographical landscape in order to choose a font that is right for them, and one that fits their project needs.

The reader is introduced to the world of typography through a series of articles showcasing sketches, background knowledge, technical information, instructions, and descriptions as well as the latest trends in contemporary typeface design.

Each individual typeface in the Yearbook of Type 2019/20 is presented on a double-page spread. Featured on the left-hand side is a specimen page, whilst the right-hand page provides detailed information about the corresponding designer and foundry, in addition to an overview of the typefaces’ characteristics. This is supplemented by an extensive index which clearly displays the fonts according to classification, as well as presenting the font designers, publishers, and explanations of OpenType features. Thanks to an online microsite, the fonts presented in the book can be directly accessed in order to either download test versions or to buy them.

– Detailed presentation of 158 recent typefaces
– Ample background information
– Index of typeface classifications
– Index of all 176 type designers and 98 foundries from 36 countries
– Explanation of all OpenType features
– Essays, interviews, and tutorials by Pedro Amado, Massimiliano Audretsch, Bianca Berning, Ian Lynam, Lilo Schäfer, Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer, Mark van Wageningen, Amber Weaver, Stefan Willerstorfer, Anuthin Wongsunkakon, and Benjamin Wurster
– Microsite online linking the typefaces directly to the foundries’ websites

Presented type foundries: 205TF, 29Letters, AinsiFont, Antipixel, Binnenland, BLKBK Inc., Bonez Designz, Brownfox, Bureau Sebastian Moock, BVH Type, Cadson Demak, Calligrafiction, CAST Foundry, character type foundry, Connary Fagen, Inc., Darden Studio, Degarism Studio, Design is Culture, Detail Type Foundry, Dezcom, Dominique Kerber, FaceType, FAEL, Fatype, Fazan Fonts, FBAUP, Fontador, Fontfabric, Frere-Jones Type, FSdesign, FutureFonts, Hanken Design Co., Hoftype, Hurme Design, HvD Fonts, JAM Type, Jan Fromm, Jeremy Tankard Typography, Jonas Pelzer, Kimmy Design, Kontour, La Bolde Vita, Laïc: Type Foundry, Latinotype, Latinotype México, Lazydogs Typefoundry, LetterPalette, Los Andes Type, LUCRA Designstudio, Ludwig Type, Lux Typo, Mark Simonson Studio, Metis Foundry, Morisawa Inc., MOTORTYPE, NEW LETTERS, Nicolas Portnoï, Nouvelle Noire, Nova Type Foundry, Occupant Fonts, Our Polite Society Type, P22 type foundry, PampaType, Parachute, phospho, PintassilgoPrints, Playtype, Process Type Foundry, R-Typography, R9 Type+Design, Renegadefonts, Revolver Type Foundry, Sandoll, Inc., Schriftlabor, Sharp Type Corporation, stabenfonts, Stawix Foundry, Studio Buchanan, Studio René Bieder, sugargliderz, The Designers Foundry, The Northern Block, TipografiaRamis, Tipografies, Tour de Force Font Foundry, Typearture, typecuts, Typedepot, Typedifferent, TypeMates, Typerepublic, TypeTogether, typic, Typogama, Typonauten, übertype, URW Type Foundry, Velvetyne Type Foundry, and Wiescher-Design.

Yearbook of Type 2019/20

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Creative Direction: Lars Harmsen
Art Direction: Julia Kahl
Graphic Design and Managing Editor: Clara Weinreich
Graphic Design Assistant: Laura Gäbert
Proofreading and Translation: Isabella Krüger, Lies Wolf
Microsite: Kolja Buscher
Volume: 400 pages
Format: 16 × 24 cm
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-948440-01-5
Specials: Hardcover, spot colors
Printing and Book Binding: Kösel GmbH & Co. KG 
Cover Material: PEYDUR neuleinen, 135 g / sm, peyer graphic gmbh 
Paper Inside: Holmen TRND 2.0, 80 g/sm, Holmen Paper
Endpaper: SURBALIN seda, 115 g/sm, tiefschwarz, peyer graphic gmbh
Spot Colors: HKS 13 N, HKS 33 N, HKS 43 N, HKS 54 N, HKS 97 N, HKS Warenzeichenverband e. V.
Price: 35,– Euro
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Frankfurt Book Fair 2019

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This year we were at the 71st Frankfurt Book Fair and have looked around for you in hall 4.1 to discover new things and to be happy about already known things. We made a longer stop at the Indiecon Island, because we were lucky to be presented with the Slanted Magazine among all the other great, independent Indie magazines at our booth. While strolling through the book fair we discovered the Typodarium at the stands of Hermann Schmidt Verlag and at Seltmann+Söhne the two instant photo calendars PHOTODARIUM 2020 and the erotic PHOTODARIUM PRIVATE 2020.

In 2019 Norway was the guest of honor at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, a country of great literature: from classics like Henrik Ibsen to current bestselling authors like Jo Nesbø. Norwegians read more than other European nations and have produced three Nobel Prize winners in literature. We could admire all this in the large Norway Hall.

As in previous years, the Frankfurt Book Fair has been promoting young designers with its own poster competition since 2006. Prospective designers are faced with the task of creating an original welcome greeting for the Guest of Honor. There are no limits to the ideas of the participants.

As always, it was an exciting excursion with a glimpse over the edge and many nice acquaintances. We are definitely looking forward to the next Book Fair!

 

 

 

 

Slanted in Rwanda: Matthew Rugamba / House of Tayo

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For our Special Issue Slanted Rwanda we traveled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in February 2019 and met numerous designers and artists in their studios.

We met Matthew Rugamba, the founder and creative director of House of Tayo—Rwandan-based fashion label that using uniform and classic silhouettes to reflect on the past as a way to shape the present. Beyond fashion, Rugamba is using his efforts to empower the locals in his community. As one of five founding members, Mathew is a part of Collective RW—a local Rwandan fashion collective aiming to use their experiences and brands as a way to collaborate with industry experts.

The exciting works of Matthew Rugamba can be found in the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, additionally we conducted a video interview with Matthew about his attitude and work. Take a look at our new issue and the video platform to meet a new side of Rwanda!

Photography: © Daniel Sommer, Slanted Publishers

Supported by descom—Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).

Bridge Head and Text

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Bridge Text and Head, a rocking duo for sparkling stories in a crisp tone and a must-have for expressive editorial typography! Bridge is the first release by an external TypeMate. It comes in two main families—Text and Head—for comfortable long reading text and fitting punchy display usage.

With three different widths in six weights, Bridge Head has the perfect voice for stunning titles. A solo career in posters, banners and logos doesn’t stop Bridge Head from rocking in concert: each of her 18 display styles can work together with Bridge Text to tell stories and build complex typographic ensembles in editorial and corporate design. The edgy editorial typefaces Bridge Text brings rhythm and clarity to long form reading. With crisp character, sparkling texture and driving asymmetrical counters, Bridge Text refines Bridge Head’s graphic qualities for note perfect, highly readable text at smaller sizes.

Unlike other superfamilies, Bridge Head and Bridge Text are distinguished by more than optical adjustments. Letterforms and details are opened out or simplified for body text. Close up, the two-cornered counter shape that gives Text a crisp character appears. The daughter of classical Didone typefaces, Bridge has a vertical stress and a modern treatment.

A type system flexible enough to bridge print publishing to digital media, with a kickass K and rebellious R, Bridge can shout out loud and make a design that can take her intensity unmistakable and independent of slick conventions.

Bridge Head & Text

Type Foundry: TypeMates
Designer: Mona Franz
Release: 2019
Formates: otf and ttf for desktop and apps, plus woff, woff2 and eot for web
Widths and weights: Bridge Head: Condensed, Normal, and Extended, each in xLight, Light, Medium, Bold, xBold and Black. Bridge Text: Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, and xBold each with Italics. 
Price one weight: 59 Euro 
Price family: 479 Euro (poss. with temporary discounts)
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Slanted in Rwanda: Pierra Ntayombya / Haute Baso

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For our special issue Slanted Rwanda we traveled to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in February 2019 and met numerous designers and artists in their studios.

Among others, we met Pierra Ntayombya. Canadian born to Rwandan parents, Pierra has spent most of her life in North America and Europe, where she developed a passion for fashion and retail. With over ten years of experience, she saw an opportunity to bring her creativity and industry knowledge to Rwanda and relocated permanently in 2016. Driven by her ambition to elevate the fashion industry and empower youth and women, she founded Haute Baso.

The exciting works of Pierra can be found in the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, additionally we conducted a video interview with Pierra about her attitude and work. Take a look at our new issue and the video platform to meet a new side of Rwanda!

Fotos: © Daniel Sommer, Slanted Publishers

Supported by descom Designforum Rhineland-Palatinate and the Partnership Association Rhineland-Palatinate / Rwanda (Jumelage).

komma Magazine Special Edition – Spam

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komma is a student magazine of the Faculty of Design at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences. The komma Magazine Special Edition which was published on the occasion of the Werkschau 2019, deals with the topic of spam.

Slanted is giving away 5 × one copy of the magazine. To take part in the raffle, write an email with the subject “komma Spam” and your postal address (for dispatch) to [email protected] until October 21st, 2019, 11 a.m. (UTC+1). The winners will be drawn after the deadline and contacted by email. Whoever takes part in the raffle agrees to receive news from Slanted and accepts the privacy policy. Legal recourse is excluded. We wish you good luck!

“SPAM! The pressure is rising. Time is running out. We are surrounded by notifications. As soon as you are five minutes away from your mobile phone, you feel like you have missed three earth revolutions. We live in a very overloaded world—as soon as you go out the door, you are bombarded by advertising. Spam now reaches beyond our mailbox: there is distraction everywhere. The focus is directed by push notifications on supposedly important things. Differentiating between fake news and spam requires a great deal of concentration. The layout of the issue is precisely linked to this problem; 112 pages of loud pictures and pop-up messages—a cry for attention from all sides. We also want to stand out in your magazine collection. We need your attention to survive as a print product in the age of digitalization.”

Posters, photo series, illustrations, and texts by students as well as editorial work are shown. These deal both directly with the topic of spam and in a free, interpretative way with the topic.

The creative concept is based on an Internet browser with open tabs. The tabs in the form of a punched register serve as a navigation system through the magazine. As a special, temporary tattoos are included with the issue.

komma Magazine Special Edition – Spam

Publisher: HS Mannheim, Faculty of Design
Editors: Natalie Letschert, Annalena Can, Jakob Ostermayer, Camie Klein, Vanessa Hoffmann, Alina Wagner, Selina Vix
Format: 17 cm × 24 cm
Repro Photography: komma Redaktion
Language: German
Release: May 2019
Volume: 112 pages
Circulation: 500 copies

Designers’ Open 2019

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From October 25th–27th, 2019 Leipzig will once again be all about design, then the Designers’ Open at KONGRESSHALLE am Zoo Leipzig will open its doors and promise high-quality and sustainable product ideas with this year’s focus on DO! FUTURE MATTER, dazzling entertainment on Friday evening with the new DO / Blue Hour and surprising moments in fashion, product, industrial and graphic design.

Slanted is offering 3 × 2 tickets for the Designers’ Open. To take part in the lottery, please send an email with the subject “Designers’ Open 2019” to [email protected] until October 18th, 2019, 11 a.m. (UTC+1) and add your postal address for shipping. The winners will be drawn. Legal ways are excluded. By taking part you are accepting the privacy statement of Slanted. Good Luck.

Alongside selected exhibitors in the Graphic & Media sector, this year for the sixth time the graphics conference POSITIONS attracts graphic fans to the KONGRESSHALLE. On October 26th, graphic designers and studios as well as illustrators and artists from Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic will present their positions and current work, thus providing a comprehensive insight into the trends in the industry. The graphics conference is not only interesting for experts: Whether you are an experienced graphics professional or a young graphic designer looking for inspiration—POSITIONS is aimed at everyone who is interested in the latest developments in the graphics industry.

This year, POSITIONS will again be curated by Philipp Neumann. The graphic designer studied typography at the HGB Leipzig, has written about graphic design in magazines, books and blogs, holds lectures, organizes events and exhibitions and is a lecturer for typography at the GUC in Cairo. Together with Karen Laube, he runs the Leipzig project space and bookstore MZIN, which specializes in design and art publications.

These are the POSITIONS (selection)

The Zurich studio Offshore Studio from Switzerland will be there. Studio owners Isabel Seiffert and Christoph Miler focus their activities on “research-driven design and visual narratives.” With this in mind, they are involved in design education and critically publish articles on relevant topics of our time. The series “MIGRANT JOURNAL” deals with aspects of migration in a total of six issues.

Electric Uwe uses graphic art on the body to establish himself. The tattoo artist and illustrator describes his work as “normally selfish craftsmanship, a service for people.” He will talk about his work and about his contribution to the book “KARL FINKE: Buch No.3 – ein Vorlagealbum des Hamburger Tätowierers” (“KARL FINKE: Book No.3—a template album of the Hamburg tattoo artist”), which reports on the life of the once most famous tattoo artist of St. Pauli.

Prague is the home of Anymade, consisting of Petr Cabalka and Filip Nerad. The two designers have made a name for themselves in the areas of graphic design, illustration, animation, installation, web design, photography and book design with their very own position and are a permanent creative force in the areas of music, fashion, art and culture. Their clients include LUNCHMEAT FESTIVAL, HAUS DER KUNST BRNO, SIXPACK FRANCE, MOOGFEST and CZECHDESIGN.

Further POSITIONS topics as well as all information about registration can be found here. Admission to the POSITIONS graphics conference is free, participants only need an admission ticket to the Designers’ Open 2019. However, as places are limited, please register.

When?
Oktober 25th–27th, 2019
Friday from  12 pm to 6 pm, Saturday from 10 am to 7 pm and Sunday 10 am to 6 pm

Where?
Kongresshalle am Zoo Leipzig
Pfaffendorfer Str. 31
04105 Leipzig 

Typodarium 2020

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Brexit and Trump’s Wall—it seems that borders around the world are currently being closed rather than permeable. It’s a good thing that more and more font families are mediating between languages and cultures at the same time, so you can use one font for multiple font systems.

The Typodarium 2020 therefore shows the latest font trends, the “weirdest” display types, the latest bread fonts and other proofs of the vital type community as well as a bi-script font family every Sunday. A writing system for diplomacy and tolerance. A writing system that brings down the walls in concrete heads and tears down political or military boundaries.

There are differences between Arabic and Hebrew, Japanese and Latin, but visually there are also many similarities. Communication overcomes borders. Communication needs writing. Type designers react to the wishes of their customers. And these customers from business and society think more globally and further than some headlines might suggest. The Sundays of the Typodarium 2020 define the silver lining on the time horizon: We are one world!

The front pages of the typodarium turn it into a calendar, the back pages, on the other hand, are a current font sample book camouflaged as a calendar. If you like a font very much, but you don’t see any possibility to use it at the moment, you might want to keep the font cheat sheet. Because that’s the way many people do it, we have packed the typodarium in a solid collection box. In the course of the year you will collect your typo inspiration here, always ready for use, because of course the font designer and source are on the back as well as a sample alphabet and information about the degree of development of the font.

Typodarium 2020

Publisher: Verlag Hermann Schmidt
Author: Lars Harmsen, Raban Ruddigkeit
Release: September 2019
Format: 8.5 × 12 cm
Volume: 384 pages in 12 colors
Workmanship: Packaged in a solid collection box
Language: English
EAN: 4260172810784
Preis: 19.80 €
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Eastern Design Conference 2019

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Eastern Design Conference focuses on design and its context—on people and places, their connections, origin stories, and history. With this in mind, Eastern Design Conference wants to showcase great ideas, unique solutions and inspiring stories to reveal how powerful and influential is the local context in design. The conference takes place on November 8th and 9th, 2019 in Košice, Slovakia. Take the chance and save yourself a ticket!

Speakers:
SNASK + Matej Špánik
Martina Pauková
Peter Biľak
Anna Marešová
Banda Agency
Martin Pecina
Olga Drenda
Samo Čarnoky
& many more

Eastern Design Conference 2019

When? 
November 8th and 9th

Where? 
​​Tabačka Kulturfabrik
Gorkého 2
040 01 Košice
Slovakia

Get more information and tickets here.

BFF Magazine #9

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The 50th anniversary of the BFF is celebrated with a very special issue of the magazine: The photographers present their best pictures … as POSTER!

The BFF Bund Freischaffender Foto-Designer (Association of Freelance Photo Designers) was founded on 18 January 1969 by Walter E. Lautenbacher. In 2013 the Bund was renamed BFF Berufsverband Freie Fotografen und Filmgestalter e.V. (Professional Association of Freelance Photographers and Film Designers). This year it celebrates its 50th anniversary. On this special occasion the BFF published a special issue of the BFF Magazine: The best photos in poster format.

BFF Magazine #9 is a DIN-A3 large and approximately 2–3 cm thick white folder with a gold imprinted 50 on the title page seems already at first sight very solemn and special. The border is printed with “50 Jahre BFF.” The weight and the thickness promise a lot of content. The folder has two large flaps, which have to be opened to get to the posters. They are printed with information about the edition as well as the names of all participants. The posters are protected by two small flaps from falling out from both the top and bottom, which arouse curiosity with their also golden inscription “54 Poster.” The stack of posters is covered by two introductory texts, which thematically place the posters in the anniversary context.

The posters are folded in the middle, the photo is hidden from the curious observer inside. The name of the photographer is shown in golden letters on the front, and the participants are presented in a short interview on the back. Three short sections inform about the history of the photograph and the way the photographer works. The photos inside are printed full-sized. All photos are presented on a DIN A2 double page in both portrait and landscape format, which can be taken out and hung up.

The BFF Magazine 9

Designer: HERBURG WEILAND 
Size: 43 × 30,5 cm
Language: German
ISBN: 978-3-933989-57-4
Price: EUR 29,- plus shipping costs

BUY HERE

Photos: © Darius Ramazani

Products in Dialogue

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The two-nation exhibition Products in Dialogue shows design from the partner countries Rhineland-Palatinate and Rwanda. The exhibition was first opened in September 2018 in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, on the occasion of a delegation trip by Rhineland-Palatines Prime Minister Malu Dreyer. From August 2019, the dialogue will continue in Rhineland-Palatinate. In the Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Rhineland-Palatinate and Rwandan design products will once again meet at the same level and connect people and cultures through design as a common “language”. In addition to objects, photographs showing the designers and the development of their products will also be shown.

The exhibition “Products in Dialogue” caught our attention in 2018 and was the initial inspiration for the Slanted Special Issue Rwanda, in which our team took a look at Rwanda’s up-and-coming creative scene. The issue was presented by Julia Kahl during the opening of the exhibition in Koblenz.

Conceptualized by descom—Designforum Rheinland-Pfalz , the exhibition will be realized in cooperation with Partnerschaftsverein Rheinland-Pfalz/Ruanda e.V. and Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz .

Designers exhibiting: Bag label Moi Dasch by Marina Furin. Shoe manufacturer Peter Kaiser. Carpentry Summer. Illustrator Annina Baeger, Communication Design Christiane Landgraf, Fashion label Simply Wear by Stefanie Wiebelhaus, Lamp manufacturer Looks, Jewellery by Claudia Adam and Jörg Stoffel, Fashion design by House of Tayo, Fashion and accessories by Haute Baso, Illustrator Dolph Banza, Jewellery by Inzuki Design, Footwear designed by Uzuri K&Y, Fashion design by Moshions, Results of research and prototypes by the African Design Center

Products in Dialogue. Design from Rwanda and Rhineland-Palatinate.

When?
From August 30th, 2019 until August 16th, 2020

Opening hours:
Monday-Friday: from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Where?
Landesmuseum Koblenz
Haus des Genusses
Festung Ehrenbreitstein
56077 Koblenz

Slanted Special Issue – Rwanda

Publisher: Slanted Publishers
Release: August 2019
Photographer: Daniel Sommer
Volume: 128 pages
Format in cm: 16 × 24 cm
Price: 12,00 €

Press photos: GDKE und U. Pfeuffer.
Photographers at the exhibition: Katharina Dubno in Rhineland-Palatinate, Chris Schwagga in Rwanda.

1.768 birthday letters

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In the Typography class at the Department of Design of the Hochschule Niederrhein, 68 typefaces were created on the anniversary of 100 years of Bauhaus! The students of the first semester intensively studied the basics of the Bauhaus and in the next step brought together the two subjects of Bauhaus and type design in an experimental way. For this purpose, one of the following six Bauhaus personalities was randomly assigned to them: Gunta Stölzl, Marianne Brandt, Anni Albers, László Moholy-Nagy, Marcel Breuer and Lyonel Feininger.

Orientated towards the style used by these Bauhaus-members, the students each developed an experimental typeface. Aim of the project was to design all 26 characters of the alphabet from A to Z. These should follow a conceptual idea and show a serial character. The result was a total of 68 × 26, i.e. “1.768 birthday letters.”

At the beginning of the 2019 summer semester, 23 out of 68 typefaces were selected. In the class Typography 2 students in small teams built the full character sets by adding numbers and other selected characters. Eventually, the typefaces were digitized using Glyphs and shown in use with different media. 

As a reminiscence of the Bauhaus and the personalities teaching there, the students decided to make these special fonts available for all who are interested—for free use. The font package “dkr-bh100” contains all 23 fonts of the project 1.768 birthday letters and can be downloaded here.

Tutors:
Prof. Nora Gummert-Hauser, Dipl.-Des. Guido Schneider und Dipl.-Des. Jens Könen.

Students:
Anni Albers: Mostafa Ashraf Mostafa, Kai Banasch, Stina Bick Fuertes, Lara Deissmann, Helin Erceylan, André Johanns, Jerome Kamp, Johanna Köstlin, Arabella Kuhn, Tra Mi Nguyen, Angelika Schittek, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, Laura von Rebenstock, Kathrin Wenger and Jil Zander.

Marianne Brandt: Anne Clemens, Karoline Delger, Malina Hülsmann, Silvio Jedynak, Jan Kersten, Sofie Kienzle, Vanessa Pietzka, Maxim Schleicher, Helena von der Forst and Alex Zemelka.

Gunta Stölzl: Jessica Bayerlein, Melina Haase, Michaela Hommen, Hanna Marie Kaddik, Nele Konstanty, Kathrin Pastwa, Tanja Paulsen and Jacqueline Schneider.

László Moholy-Nagy: Maamon Alramadan, Linus Bock, Uljana Butusow, Joshua Ebel, Stephan Fabry, Viktor Gertken, Ann Christine Gierkes, Samuel Heinbach, Anita Krenn, Nils Knell, Christopher Linnemann, Atussah Lutze, Cherin Mohr, Ellen Müller, Annika Strehlau, Jana Tillmanns, Lena Ullrich and Laura Wilmsen.

Marcel Breuer: Antonia Diehlmann, Lisa Eppers, Alexander Fröhlich, Luisa Jansen, Lisa Kanyukova, Rabea Marquardt and Mitsuru Toki.

Lyonel Feininger: Nicole Bosquet, Linh Hoang, Birk Hoffmann, Yllka Hulaj, Lisa Kaysers, Annika Klumpen, Nadia Natale, Hans Seeger, Jessica Willner and Saif Zainalabdeen.

On the Road to Variable

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On the 16th of September 2016, Adobe, Google, Apple, and Microsoft announced a new update to the OpenType specification that would allow for fonts to be variable. Through this update, designers will have the freedom and flexibility to explore a wide variety of styles, ranging in extremes to include everything in between.

Although the technology has yet to be fully implemented, variable typography is already becoming an unstoppable force in contemporary graphic design. “On the Road to Variable” explores an eclectic and exciting collection of work that experiments with the modification of existing typefaces as well as the creation of new ones for a fascinating glimpse into the future of type. It highlights an inspiring array of projects where designers explore endless possibilities with type. Also included are interviews with top design studios that continue to push creative boundaries in their work.

On the Road to Variable

Publisher: viction:ary
Designer & Editor: TwoPoints.Net
Extent: 264 pages
Format: 19 cm × 26.5 cm
Workmanship: Full-colour printing, soft cover in 2 color options
Language: English
ISBN: 978-988-78501-7-5
Price: 33.79 €
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34th Poster Competition of the German National Association for Student Affairs

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For the winter semester 2019/2020, the Deutsches Studentenwerk (German National Association for Student Affairs) is launching its poster competition for the 34th time. The topic this time will be: “I study—why should I care about research?”. With its current poster competition for design students, the Deutsches Studentenwerk (DSW), together with the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation,) is asking what research means for today’s students. What significance do science and research have in the studies and everyday life of students? What is research for them—duty, desire, everyday life or a distant goal? Would students like to do more research during their studies? What would they like to research and what for?

The new poster competition is part of the DFG campaign “DFG 2020-Deciding for Knowledge.” With this campaign, Germany’s largest research funding organisation aims to promote free and knowledge-driven research. The competition will be advertised nationwide at all state and state approved design universities starting in the winter semester 2019/2020.

A jury of five experts will distribute a total of 10,000 euros in prize money. In addition, the German Research Foundation awards a special prize of 3,000 euros. The 29 best posters will tour Germany for two years and will be exhibited in various locations. The competition is sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) and the Museum for Communication Berlin (Museum für Kommunikation Berlin)—a long-standing cooperation partner.

The competition is open to students of graphic design, communication design and visual communication. The closing date for applications is November 3rd, 2019. The posters must be submitted by mid-January 2020.

Information on the competition and registration can be found here.

Typeface of the Month: Halvar

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The Halvar family stands firm, serious, and self-confident on paper and impresses with its unobtrusive clarity. The total of 162 styles offer a wide selection, which allows the Halvar to be used in many areas. A stencil font emphasises the industrial character of the Halvar.

With bulky proportions and constructed forms, Halvar is a pragmatic grotesk with the raw charm of an engineer. A type system ready to explore, Halvar has 81 styles, wide to condensed, hairline to black, roman to oblique and then to superslanted, structured into three subfamilies: the wide Breitschrift, regular Mittelschrift and condensed Engschrift. Designed to be as adaptable in application as it is steady in appearance, this spectrum makes Halvar as ideal for complex corporate identity solutions as it is for particular ones. For industrial duties, a stencil display version is also available.

The typeface’s universe is supplemented by a solid stencil and like all TypeMates fonts, this superfamily is available for print + web, embedding and server licensing. As always, you can use a a free Desktop-Demo-Version to test all styles of the typeface.

Halvar Stencil expands on the Halvar universe by building on its industrial attitude: this German-engineered Schablonenschrift is a typeface for construction sites, power stations, data plates and anything that demands visual impact.

Cutting stencils into the letters of Halvar reveals that the typeface is an engineer. With letters parted into circles and rectangles, Halvar Stencil is a practical typeface whose raw character is stabilised with consistency and solid workmanship. With bold weights well-suited to immense and brute uses and light weights that are airy and chic, it has flexibility to match its scale.

Please, max the Gap! Havar Stencil is not only available in three widths, it’s shipped with three sizes of stencilling. From the tight MinGap to the loose Maxgap, this ensures that whether Halvar Stencil is applied to a shipping container or the plaque of a hard carry case, it has the right amount of stencilling for the job.

Complementing all this, Halvar’s multi-plexed functionality means that designers can lighten and darken text in complex settings without worrying about reflowing text or distorted interfaces. Like Halvar, Halvar Stencil has an absolutely consistent character width across all its weights.

With a character set that includes extended Latin, Greek and Cyrillic and supports more than 190 languages, Halvar’s styles have German names and multilingual ambitions. Perfect for cross-market branding. To ensure TypeMates’ usual high standards throughout all glyphs, the Cyrillic and Greek letterforms were developed in consultation with native readers.

Halvar

Foundry: TypeMates
Designer: Lisa Fischbach, Jakob Runge, Nils Thomsen plus, with the extra mile on the Stencil, Paul Eslage
Consulting on Cyrillic: Maria Doreuli, Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky
Consulting on Greek: Kostas Bartsokas
Improving the screen performance: Anke Bonk of Alphabet Type
Release: 2019
Format: OTF and TTF for desktop and apps, plus WOFF, WOFF2 and EOT for web
Weights: 162 styles in total, 9 weights from Hairline to Black in 3 widths from Condensed to Extended, multiplied by 2 Slants for Halvar, multiplied by 3 gap sizes for the Stencil
Price: Weight 39.– up to 49.– € (net), complete family 199.– up to 299.– € (net)
The hole type system with 162 weights for 799.– € (net).

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Walz-Stipendium 2020—Scholarship

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In 2018, the Verein für die Schwarze Kunst Dresden e.V. announced a “Walz-Stipendium” (a typesetting scholarship) for the first time. The aim of the association is to preserve and promote the craftsmanship and traditional professions of typesetter and printer and to support the transfer of knowledge to future generations. The association is committed to providing young people in the relevant professions or during their studies with access to traditional printing workshops in order to achieve a deeper understanding of writing and typography through the practical use of the comprehensible, three-dimensional medium.

Now, under the slogan “Handsatz und Buchdruck wandernd lernen—Walz für Handsatz und Buchdruck 2020” (Learning handset and printing by traveling—letterpress and book printing 2020,) the association is awarding ten “Travels” for two months each in changing workshops. Of these, five are reserved as scholarships for participants under the age of 30, which the association supports with 1,000.– Euros each.

The association can provide typesetters and printers for teaching in schools where lead typesetting and printing presses are still available. Finally, it is also possible for the association to support students’ semester works or final theses with specialist knowledge, workplaces in the workshops of the association members or possibly financially.

With the scholarship, the Verein für die Schwarze Kunst Dresden e.V. enables friends of artistic trades to learn the basics of letterpress printing in up to 17 different workshops and to implement their own projects. The deadline for applications is October 10th, 2019. If a sufficient number of participants have not yet been selected, further applications will be accepted without a time limit.

Further information on the call and details on the participating workshops can be found here.

From 0 to 100!

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From October 11th to October 20th, 2019, the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design invites you to the “100 beste Plakate 18 Germany Austria Switzerland” exhibition, that each year rewards graphic designers from German-speaking countries for their posters. In 2018, the jury awarded the 100 most outstanding works amongst more than 2000 submissions from a total of 646 designers.

“From 0 to 100” is the motto not only of the exhibition but also of the off-program in the atriums of the HfG Karlsruhe. Award winners of the competition—among them some (former) students of the HfG Karlsruhe—have been invited to give lectures, lead two-day workshops and propose a new design of the HfG’s large exhibition wall. This off-program is intended to open up a dialogue on everyday creative practice in graphic and communication design in various contexts.

On the 11th and 12th of October, Karlsruhe will be hosting a small graphic design festival, during which the exhibition of the “100 Best Plakate” will be officially opened on Friday, October 11th, at 6 p.m. The exhibition can still be visited until October 20th, 2019.

When?
Opening: October 11th, 2019, 6 p.m.
Graphic design festival: October 11th until 12th, 2019
Exhibition: October 12th until 20th, 2019, 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.
Admission free

Where?
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Lorenzstraße 15
76135 Karlsruhe

Contact & registration here.

Femme Type

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Femme Type  is an all-female publication conceptualised by ex UAL Chelsea graphic design communication student Amber Weaver aiming to celebrate over 40 skilled, international women exercising their talents in the type industry. Femme Type’s purpose is to create a valuable stage and platform for designers to showcase their brilliant typographic achievements wrapped up in a wonderful printed format. To create a valuable source of inspiration and education for future and established designers across the globe.

Femme Type is separated into three sections:

Essays
Featuring a series of Latin-Kanji pairing studies titled “Bilingual Lettering” by New York-based designer and type designer, Tienmin Liao. A discussion about typewriter typefaces and their Influence on new digital fonts by Alphabettes.org contributor & co-founder of Kinetic, María Ramos. And finally, an essay talking about alphabettes.org typographic headers by co-founder Amy Papaelias.

Type Design
This section is donated to showcasing typeface projects by the likes of Johanne Lian Oslen, Andrea Tinnes, Sibylle Hangmann, Pooja Saxena, Maria Doreuli, Mobel Type Foundry and more.

Typography
Featuring typographic projects by London-based studio Yarza Twins, Marta Gawin, Shanti Sparrow, Mynameiswendy, Marta Cerda, Rita Matos, and many moree.

We teamed up with Leeds-based creative printers and finishers Pressision Ltd to make this exciting project a reality. Published by People of Print (in perpetuum).

Femme Type

Publisher: People of Print (in perpetuum)
Designer & Author: Amber Weaver
Volume: 272 pages + 8-pages cover
Format: 25 × 21 cm
Workmanship: Litho printed CYMK plus a special Pantone Spot color onto high-quality Fedrigoni Arcoprint paper, PUR bound
Language: English
ISBN: 917-1-5272-4222-7
Price: 30.– €
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Spring #16 – Sex

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The Spring-collective presents the 16th issue of the Spring Magazine on the topic of sex. In the stories of this issue, the artists take up the challenge of illustrating something that is omnipresent as a subject and yet extremely private, intimate and unique for all of us. In the rooms of the Frappant, drawings, prints, paintings, and objects will be presented beyond the works of the magazine. On the opening evening every buyer of a magazine will take part in a raffle to win originals of the artists!

How do you illustrate something that is extremely private, intimate and unique for all of us? Sex is inherently inscribed in people’s minds—yet culturally one of life’s most heavily worked on topics. It connects and separates us, evokes the most intense emotions, creates identities and decides destinies. In sex, all aspects of existence merge in a variety of individual ways. Sex is an omnipresent subject, but still a great challenge for an illustration magazine.

In the current issue of SPRING, 14 women artists take up this challenge. In their comics, illustrations, and texts, they describe the evolutionary history of sexuality, allow us to participate in personal experiences from puberty, report on everyday sexism, ask what the absence of physicality actually does to us, and deal with female identity across generations. Entertainingly and openly, they stroll visually through the subject, telling us about digital vulvas, about the fusion in painting and about the Japanese festival of love.

SPRING was founded in Hamburg in 2004. Since then, a new anthology volume has been published every summer, which brings together the various works from the fields of comics, illustration and free drawing on a single theme. Since the beginning the group consists exclusively of women and has become a solid and important network for draughtswomen in Germany.

Spring #16 includes illustrations, comics and texts by Larissa Bertonasco, Aisha Franz, Doris Freigofas, Jul Gordon, Katharina Gschwendtner, Carolin Löbbert, marialuisa, moki, Nina Pagalies, Nadine Redlich, Katharina Serles, Katrin Stangl, Kati Szilagyi, Birgit Wehye and Stephanie Wunderlich.

Spring #16 – Sex

Publisher: mairisch Verlag
Release: September 2019
Format: 20 × 24 cm
Volume: 256 pages
Language: English, German
ISBN: 978-3-938539-54-5
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When?
Opening:
Thursday, September 26th, 2019

Opening hours:
Friday, September 27th, 2019 from 5 until 7 p.m.
Saturday, September 28th, 2019 from 5 until 7 p.m.
Sunday, September 29th, 2019 from 2 until 5 p.m.

Participating artists:
Larissa Bertonasco
Aisha Franz
Doris Freigofas
Jul Gordon
Katharina Gschwendtner
Carolin Löbbert
marialuisa
moki
Nina Pagalies
Nadine Redlich
Catherine Serles
Katrin Stangl
Kati Szilagyi
Birgit Wehye
Stephanie Wunderlich

Where?
Frappant Galerie in der Viktoria-Kaserne
Zeisweg 9 (access via the backyard in Bodenstedtstraße)
22765 Hamburg

Further information on the event can be found here.

 

11th Weltformat Graphic Design Festival

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This autumn, the 11th edition of Weltformat Graphic Design Festival takes place in Lucerne. This year’s festival theme is Tools & Rules. Nine exhibitions, a symposium with more than ten international speakers as well as talks, guided tours, film screenings, and much more will give visitors an insight into the topic.

In addition to current trends, socio-economic tendencies and personal preferences, the tools graphic artists choose to work with ultimately shape their designs. Technical innovations are a driving force behind graphic design and have a significant influence on the form and function of visual solutions. This year’s festival edition examines the wide range of traditional and contemporary tools used today.

The exhibition Designing Tools for example explores the question of whether unique graphic solutions and an unmistakable visual language call for self-developed tools tailored to the individual needs of designers. The exhibition focuses on the tools used by graphic designers—from modified technical devices to strict sets of rules and complex algorithms.

Today, easy-to-use poster, layout or logo generators offer fast and inexpensive graphic solutions to the general public. In addition, new technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing are used to further optimise the market-dominating design programmes. Although there are many advantages to these developments, the question arises as to how standardised and generic design solutions can be avoided. Designing Tools highlights how the tools used by graphic designers significantly influence their design. For the exhibited projects, no conventional design instruments were used, but existing tools were converted, modified and misused. Some instruments were developed especially for the realisation of certain projects—in close connection with the content. These instruments range from technical devices and digital programmes to predefined rules and regulations. The use of these individual and new tools leads to surprising visual results beyond generic or decorative design.

On the other hand, the exhibition Pre-digital is dedicated to the era before the computer became designers’ most used device, presents original designs by graphic artists such as Werner Jeker, Bruno Monguzzi, Ralph Schraivogel or Niklaus Troxler and offers an insight into the world of analog working tools. A small grey box from the Californian Palo Alto stands for probably the most radical change in the history of graphic design. In 1984, the age of desktop publishing was heralded with the introduction of Apple Macintosh. Initially still modest in quality and smiled at by many, it didn’t take long for the new digital design process to establish itself across the industry. After a few years, drawing tables, gluing utensils or Letraset letters looked like relics from the past. Processes established over many decades were suddenly completely obsolete. The digitalisation that is still feared by many industries today—it took over the field of graphic design more than three decades ago.

At the Weltformat Graphic Design Festival symposium, designers from all over the world will examine the topic of Tools & Rules in three thematic blocks: Using and Misusing Tools, Type and Techniques and Professional (R)evolutions. They will also present their own work in relation to the topics discussed. The panel Type and Techniques highlights the relationship between type design and technology whereas Using and Misusing Tools examines the potential of specifically developed design tools and concepts. The job profile and professional environment of designers is constantly evolving. Technical innovations, design standards and socio-economic progresses have shaped the profession of graphic artists since the end of the 19th century. The thematic block Professional (R)evolutions discusses these developments with a focus on the current challenges in the context of digitalisation and new technologies.

For this year’s festival poster of Weltformat Graphic Design Festival, the design studio Maximage has developed a digital tool; the Weltformat app with an integrated AR feature complements the festival poster designed by Maximage and turns the entire public space into a projection surface for typography.

Slanted is giving away 2 × 2 tickets for the Weltformat Graphic Design Festival including the symposium. To take part in the lottery, please send an email with the subject “Weltformat” to [email protected] until September 26th, 2019, 11 a.m. The winners will be drawn. Legal ways are excluded. By taking part you are accepting the privacy statement of Slanted. Good Luck.

When?
Festival:
Daily Exhibitions from September 28th, until October 6th, 2019
Symposium:
September 28th, 2019

Where?
Lucerne, Switzerland

More information here.